Full Description
Use these gifted and higher level thinking strategies for all students!
Developed for reading educators, this rich resource incorporates higher level thinking and reading strategies that promote academic achievement for both gifted learners and struggling students. Susan E. Israel, Dorothy A. Sisk, and Cathy Collins Block, recognized leaders in the fields of reading and literacy, provide teachers with tools to create collaborative literacy classrooms where students can generate ideas independently, discuss them, and then develop new concepts within a group environment. Collaboration boosts critical thinking skills and helps develop and enrich reading, writing, speaking, and thinking experiences not just for gifted readers, but for all learners!
You'll gain important insights on:
Understanding how collaborative literacy affects gifted students and your entire classroom
Building collaborative literacy using specific resources such as adaptable lessons and activities
Creating an enriched collaborative literacy environment for all students
Involving parents in collaborative literacy learning
Stimulating creativity to increase critical thinking and develop richer comprehension
Develop higher level thinking and reading strategies to help your students become independent researchers, writers, and readers!
Contents
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Introduction: Setting the Purpose for Building Collaborative Literacy
Part I: Gaining Wisdom About Gifted Students to Build Collaborative Literacy
1. What Does Building Collaborative Literacy Mean in the Classroom
2. Identifying and Engaging Advanced Readers and Gifted Students in Collaborative Literacy
3. Strengthening Instruction of Gifted Students With Special Needs in a Collaborative Literacy Environment
Part II: Building Collaborative Literacy Communities in the Regular Classroom
4. Developing and Creating an Enriched Literacy Collaborative
5. Building Collaborative Literacy in a Multicultural Classroom
6. Building Collaborative Literacy During Reading and Writing Instruction
7. Building Collaborative Literacy With Parents
Part III: Building Collaborative Literacy Using Gifted and Literacy Strategies
8. Using Gifted Literacy Strategies With All Students to Increase Higher Level Thinking and Develop Richer Comprehension
9. Strategies to Stimulate Creativity During Reading and Writing
10. Building Efficiency in Using Information Through Inquiry-Based Learning and Technology
11. Evaluation of Collaborative Literacy in Every Classroom
Part IV: Final Reflections: Congratulations on Making Personal Connections and Building Collaborative Literacy
12. The Mind of a Busy Teacher: A Meta-Reflection
References by Chapter
Index
